ALERT SERVICES  Tags: alerts  

Alert Services are a great way of keeping up to date on research or informational topics. Rather than searching periodical databases regularly to find new content about your topic, an alert service keeps you informed by sending you e-mail messages when new articles are available matching your search criteria. They can be set up either by topic and/or by journal title. Alerts can be added, edited, deleted or terminated at any time.

Typically an alert service consists of:

• Running a search strategy in a periodical index, ex: EBSCOHost Academic Search Premier
• Saving the search strategy in the search history
• Setting up a personal account with the database vendor (only done once)
• Setting up the alert by providing your e-mail address, frequency of the alert (daily, weekly, monthly), etc.

07/16/2009